UPSC GK Questions 2026

After the earlier goal of Rs 30,000 crore in annual defence exports was met in the previous year, the government fixed a higher goal of Rs 50,000 crore to be reached by 2029.

Supplies went to more than 100 countries, which is why the Defence Minister described the country as moving from being an importer to a trusted global supplier.

India works 12 major ports and 217 non-major ports, so the total covers both categories together.

Claims up to that level are met from the pool's accumulated reserves together with its reinsurance recoveries, and the government's guarantee is activated only once those reserves have been completely used up.

The correct answer is the General Insurance Corporation of India, better known as GIC Re, which has taken charge as Pool Manager and Administrator and handles the pool's day-to-day running, its performance reporting and its operational systems.

This is the total value of risk the pool is able to write, and it makes the pool the first domestic maritime insurance arrangement of that size in India.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act was passed in 1951, a little over a year after the Constitution came into force.

Gross National Product minus depreciation gives Net National Product. Depreciation is the wear and tear of machinery, buildings and other capital goods during the year.

Dantidurga founded the Rashtrakuta kingdom in the Deccan in about 753 CE. Dantidurga was a feudatory of the Chalukyas of Badami and overthrew the Chalukya ruler Kirtivarman II to set up independent rule, with Manyakheta, today's Malkhed in Karnataka, becoming the capital.

The product method adds up the value of goods and services produced by all firms in the economy. National income can be measured in three ways, and all three should give the same figure.

The craftspersons of Bidar were famous for inlay work in copper and silver, and the craft took the name Bidri from the town.

Maize is the crop grown both as food and as fodder, needing 21°C to 27°C and old alluvial soil. Maize is a kharif crop sown with the onset of the monsoon, though in Bihar and a few other states it is also raised in the rabi season.

Iron and steel is indeed a heavy industry, but not because of light raw materials. Industries are classified by the weight of the material they handle.

He was a Jaina in his early life and served as a minister in a Chalukya court in the twelfth century.

The Wang Chhu flows through western Bhutan and joins the Brahmaputra system in India. The Wang Chhu rises in the Himalayas of Tibet, passes Thimphu and Paro in Bhutan, and enters West Bengal, where it is known as the Raidak.

C. Rajagopalachari led the salt march in the Madras Presidency, in the area that is now Tamil Nadu. When the Civil Disobedience Movement began in 1930, Rajagopalachari marched from Tiruchirappalli to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast and broke the salt law there in April 1930.

The Imad Shahi dynasty founded the Sultanate of Berar in 1490. As the Bahmani kingdom of the Deccan broke up in the late fifteenth century, five successor sultanates appeared.

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878, when Lord Lytton was Viceroy of India. The Act was aimed at Indian-language newspapers, which had grown sharply critical of British rule after the famine of 1876-78.

El Nino is the warming of surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. In a normal year the trade winds push warm water westwards towards Australia and Indonesia, and cold water rises along the coast of Peru and Ecuador.

This article vests the superintendence, direction and control of elections in the Election Commission of India. Article 324 falls in Part XV of the Constitution, which covers elections.